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ebb

[eb] / ɛb /




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“More gut-check moments will come as yields and headlines ebb and flow through year end,” Ives wrote in a note.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Perhaps this existence is more about riding the ebb and flow than it is mapping the course.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

As if a healthy Ohtani would ever ebb so dramatically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The success of Brewis's app, and the creation of others like it, suggests the dramatic recent ebb and flow of Westminster may have inspired a popular new sub-genre.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Morale seemed to be at a low ebb for several of the expeditions at Camp Two.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

That pre-Monday dread isn’t a new phenomenon, but there’s reason to believe it’s intensifying as workloads mount and job security ebbs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Attention surrounding Sunset Cliffs injuries ebbs and flows much like the current, according to Frank Gormlie, a longtime San Diego County resident who tracked incidents more than a decade ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“This means higher economic volatility and a more reactive monetary policy environment as inflation ebbs and flows,” they added.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Of course, the popularity or otherwise of all parties ebbs and flows over time, and as recently as the 2017 general election Labour and the Conservatives managed 82.4% of the vote between them.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

As I explain our situation, his initial agitation mysteriously ebbs.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

And even though levels of leverage in certain corners of the market have ebbed from their peak levels seen shortly before July’s artificial-intelligence swoon, risks remain.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026

Once that goal was achieved, political enthusiasm and public interest ebbed, as did funding for further exploration.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Comparable sales, which account for store openings and closing, ebbed 1.1%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Since then, the relationship has ebbed and flowed.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

Within the hotel chemical odors ebbed and flowed like an atmospheric tide.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

But whatever faith people had in his ability to fix those problems, it is apparently ebbing away - and, the brutal truth is, it can be hard to find voters who like him.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, any ebbing of energy and related costs if the Iran war ends would provide an additional boost to margins.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

The most famous story-style intro — it literally begins with, “Here’s a story” — belongs to “The Brady Bunch,” which bridged the 1960s and ’70s, a decade that saw the ebbing of title-sequence stories.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

The end of the China boom coincided with ebbing demand for coal in the U.S., where the shale oil boom produced a surge in natural gas supplies and a steep fall in its prices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

As I walk with Uhmma now, her hand grasped firmly in mine, I can feel the strength that was there in our childhood ebbing away.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na


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